Faculty earn distinguished provost’s grants and trustees scholarships

Michael Amy

Amit Batabyal

Bruce Smith

This year’s recipients of the Trustees Scholarship Awards have clearly demonstrated records of excellent scholarship at RIT over at least a three-year period.

Michael Amy,
associate professor of art history, foundations department, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. Amy joined RIT in 2000, and his research interests include the Renaissance and contemporary art. In addition, Amy has received the 2006 Gitner Family Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Communication.

Batabyal joined RIT in 2000 and currently conducts research in environmental economics, natural resource economics, ecological economics, development economics, international trade theory, and the interface of economics with philosophy and political science.

Additionally, he has received several grants from the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Smith joined RIT in 1988 and is currently the director of RIT’s Center for Nanolithography Research. Smith has published numerous research papers and is co-author of Microlithography: Science and Technology. Research interests include optical nanolithography and fabrication of semiconductor devices and systems. In 1999, he received RIT’s first Creator’s Award for success as an inventor. He was recently named a fellow of SPIE, formerly the International Society for Optical Engineering.